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      While the Ministerialists are counting their gains as they are pleased to call them , the public at large is chieflj interested in the fact that Oxford University has not dis-rated itself by rejecting Mr . Gladstone , and that Edinburgh has redeemed itself by once more electing Macaulay . Oxford , indeed , has placed Sir Robert Inglis at the head of the poll , preferring to be represented

      by the member for Exeter Hall , than by the truly refined and independent statesman and scholar ; and a Ministerial morning paper , while deploring the short-lived triumph of Tractariatrism and heroworship , through a not unnatural alliance of graduates in superstition and scepticism , the disciples of Pusey and admirers of Carlyle , enters into very elaborate calculations to show that Dr . Bullock

      Mnvsham would have been returned if two hundred persons who intended to be in Oxford had actually gone , if fifty promised votes had been recorded , and so forth ; meanwhile says the consoled Herald , " despite the heat , the expense , and the necessity of taking part in other elections elsewhere , 750 sons of Alma Mater , manly and true , recorded , in 2 > erson > their solemn condemnation of Mr . Gladstone ' s heresies !"

      By a parity of reasoning the distinguished journal asserts , in a breath , that " rapidly is the opposition phalanx , diminishing in its numbers ; " but still that " every scat now gained becomes of the utmost importance ; it is the prelude of certain victory ; moreover it gives the only chance of a iirm and stable Government . " This rapid accumulation of Parliamentary wealth , which is so anxiouH about its individual pence , this " certain " " chance" materially diminishes when we scrutinize the liuturc of the Ministerial progress .

      It is true that here and there » constituency has transferred its votes to a Ministerialist , but the gains arc far from sufficient to encourage a hope that they will do more than diminish the opposition majority , leaving it still si majority . The Herald calculates that the oppotsitiou will be divided , but the new footing on which many

      Ministerialists now stand , foreshadows division even in the Ministerial minority . The diversity ol view baa been rendered more marked . Then ; in the old school who , with Mr . Hurries , at Stamford , mid Mr . Hooker , at Hereford , arc for relurn-* » g to Protection in the full sense of the word , ritere ia the Disraeli school , who generalise the [ Town Edition . " ]

      word Protection , and seek a substitute for the advantages of prohibitory duties in a transfer of fiscal burdens from one class to another ; and there is the newest school , who , with Sir Thomas Dyke Acland , and Lord Hugh Cholmondeley , declare point blank that if a measure to renew the Cora-law were proposed they would vote against it . Lord Stanley , son of the Premier , says that the subject is at rest , and Mr . Henley , ' President of the Board of Trade , says that no man intends to propose a renewal of the

      Corn-laws ; but the members whom we have just mentioned say that the question shall not be disturbed , and that they will resist the reimposition . P bservc , Booker , Kelly and others are for restoring Protection ; Disraeli and others are for converting it into transfer of burdens or compensation ; Acland and others would resist the restoration . Without presuming that these several sections of the minority would often vote against each other , their very existence indicates divided councils , even in a minority .

      The Protectionist party professes to make its boldest move in proposing as candidate for the West Riding , against Cobden , that Mr . George Pclsant Dawson , of Osgodby-hall , whom we have more than once mentioned as having introduced the iilea of spontaneous association amongst agriculturists to promote their interests ; an idea perfectly in accordance with the progress of opinion . We have always regarded that idea as reconciling the conflicting interests , hitherto imperfectly represented by the one-sided dogmas called Protection sind Free-trade . If Mr . Dawson were

      returned to parliament , it would be some compensation for the ejection of Philip Pusey by the electors of Berkshire , because he told them that henceforth they must rely not on Protection , but on a sound system of agriculture . We have to note also the gain of more than one truly popular member . Mr . Edward Miall ,

      the editor of the Nonconformist , a dissenter , with views fur more enlarged than those usually found among nonconformists , is returned for Rochdale ; and Neweaistle-upon-Tyiic has vindicated its high character for intelligence and political vigour , by electing Mr . Blackett , a man hearty inul able in the people ' s cause .

      Amongst other pleasing traits of the elections , we note the energy with which the people of Norwich have rescued themselves from long standing habits of bribery , currying their zeal ho far as to place committees in the atreeta during the night

      to keep watch upon the bribers . This energy has won victory ; and Norwich , in one of whose streets so much as 4000 ? . has been spent at previous elections , has now freely returned the men of her own choice . —Peto , the liberal dissenter , whose munificence we admire , though we might not agree with all his views on industrial subjects , and Warner a thoroughgoing Radical . While Parliament is struggling into existence , rejecting Pusey , haggling over Disraeli , Booker , or Aeland , or Cobden , or Pelsant Dawson ,

      agriculture is struggling into sense , by help of its associations . The Exhibition of the Royal Agricultural Society at Lewes , is a proof that the farmers are seeking in earnest to place themselves above artificial support . We observe that the show of machinery is extensive ; and that every year adds to the demand for it among agriculturists . This is a cheering sign . As farmers become able to pay rent by skilful enterprise , they will become less and less the slaves of the rentexacting classes . Thus a double victory will be gained—moral and monetary independence . is antici

      The sum of this week ' s French news - pated by our last resume' of the political situation in that country . The dangers and difficulties of Louis Nnpoleon are spreading like a cloud . The most salient fact is the almost universal strike of the working-classes throughout the country ; a proof of wide-spread and deep-rooted discontent , formidably organized . The army wavers , and even the peasants stone the adventurer , St . Arnaud , when they recognise him . Literature , driven from the press , and oratory from the tribune , take refuge in pamphlets and brochures , and by simply adapting Tacitus ( after the manner of English dramatic authors ) , hurl deadly shafts

      at the reigning imposture . Let those who hail the re-establishment of good relations between official English Toryism and Austrian absolutism ponder well the amenities < n Austrian rule in Lombardy . But from the nettle of Calamity , we pluck the ilower , Hope . Italy is neither dead nor sleeping . A people thut can so suffer and ho persist , has a future beyond the reach of despotism ami diplomacy . With the light and warmth of her genius , Italy fill" the world . With the example of her heroic endurance , she will rekindle the torch of freedom , a beacon to thu

      nations oppressed . Lord Palmerston h latest words , on the Italian question , were only too well timed ; but what of Lord Mttlmesbury ' s professions , and what of his alliances ?

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      S K " " « "B S S S S T S « « « « « J # i ¦ ¦ ¦¦ ¦ NEWS OF THE WEEK- ~« Overcrowded Steamboats 678 How to Elect Guardians , to your ^^ sUspeare 685 - r T 70 S" ^ 1 ° / * S An ^ Ma ^ ooth " and its Teachings ... 683 Herbert Spencer ' s Theory of Popu-SSi »^™ smsE- - ass- *;¦ - ;™ :.. ^ .. ^ : jr- «« ™ zz : z ^ ; -=:::::::::: ^^;^^ :::::. ™ ------ . - _ ^ ™^ - Continen talSrotea -. 075 POSTSCRIPT 680 Dishonest Dizzy 684 , The Discipline of Art 689 India and Burma * o / o p i C AFFAIRS— " The Show of Hats" 684 Passages from a Boy ' s Epic 690 ^ SdSS ^ .. —r-:: ™ ? ^ . i , ^ -. , ** - !» •¦ m / pt Mormon Miracle 677 Palmerston and the Future 681 Tivian m the D « mp » 690 The Sanitary Association verms the Our Modern Feudal System 682 OPEN COUNCIL— COMMERCIAL AFFAIRSWater Monopolists 677 Ita l * Martyrdom and English and ^ (^ ; ^ Markets , Advertisements , &c ... 691-692 n « .. JAl KnilwiLT Accident 678 Apathy .... oaji ______ — -- .

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      .. The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself " into ^^^ ^^^^^^ If ^^^^^ ot" ^^ nature . "—Humholdt ' s Cosmos .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), July 17, 1852, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1943/page/1/